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Mobile broadband is the marketing term for wireless Internet access through a portable modem, mobile phone (called "cell phones" in North America and South Africa), USB Wireless Modem, or other mobile devices.

I need a good easy to use alternative like Netlimiter for ubuntu 14.04.
The reason is that i have only 2 GB Internet download limit and ubuntu seems to always update packages which kill my bandwidth.
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I have a laptop Lenovo E430C which includes a SIM card for broadband network. I inserted it in its place, but its not working and I have tried many times to make it work but I failed. Anybody knows ...

I am using D-Link DWP-156 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. When I plug it into one of the four USB ports on my laptop, 4 new devices are detected by /dev folder viz: ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1, ttyUSB2 and ttyUSB3. Why is ...

my dongle's name is Idea Net Setter 3G. It is detected for software install but in the software it does not show network and does not connect. I had a look in the device manager and it has some driver ...

The dongle connects and stars working instantly on my Dell Vostro 14, which is also running ubuntu, but version 14.04. But on my macbook pro, which is running ubuntu version 15.04, it doesn't detect ...

Basically the title describes it all
OS Ubuntu 14.10 (r20)
Mobile Data works when only using the local SIM
I have one local SIM and one from another country
I would have expected Mobile Data to work ...

I have a Consumer Cellular branded Huawei flip phone. When I'm at work we don't have internet access via dial-up, DSL, or cable so I was utilizing the phone as a modem. I used a USB cable to connect ...

I plugged in my Mobile Broadband device and it brought up a window saying it couldn't connect phone, my question is if there is a way to get around this and connect it as my internet (Samsung Galaxy S ...

The Mobile Broadband card I have is a Qualcomm 3G CDMA USB720 for Verizon. The card was working fine for years under previous versions. After upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04, the card stopped working.
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I use a mobile broadband dongle to connect to the internet but I'm able to download/upload only after executing manually sudo dhclient everytime I turn the connection on from the network manager menu ...

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and installed xubuntu-desktop environment. I removed unity by sudo apt-get purge unity ubuntu-desktop. All workings fine on Xubuntu.
Today when I visited this where there ...

I have asus x550v and I have problem with ubuntu 14.04.
When set to asus_nb_wmi:
0 - wifi not working but mobile brandband working.
1 - wifi working but mobile brandband not working.
4 - wifi working ...

Both my 3G modems (Uknown in this table) doesn't work on Ubuntu 14.04. I tried SIM card push to 3G slot in notebook Dell D630 and also with external 3G modem card. Seme effect: broadband network I can ...

My 3G BSNL Visiontek Mobile Datacard is not recognized in Ubuntu 14.04.
Even under internet connection menu there is no "Enable Mobile Broadband" option, and also under "Edit Connections" my device ...

I use VPNC (the command line client from the package vpnc) to connect with my institution. The configuration file looks like this
IPSec ID CiscoGroup
IPSec gateway xxx.xxx.xxx
IPSec secret XXXXXXXX
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I recently upgraded my Toshiba Portege laptop to 14.04. Since doing so, I cannot get my Sierra Wireless Air Card 313u to connect. Since this unit worked fine in the previous LTS version, I believe the ...

This seems to be a huge problem! In my network dropdown menu there are so many items such as the image shown below, all of them are not been used by me any time since the first session of ubuntu after ...

I am using a Qualcom Broadband (EVDO) dongle on Ubuntu 13.04. I have used this dongle well for a number of days on Ubuntu 13.04 but recently I had to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 but when I try ...

so i bought this vodafone dongle K4201 I. however whenever i connect it to my laptop on ubuntu 12.10 it doesn't show any internet to connect to. i tried using the option 'create vpn connection' but ...

When I ran Ubuntu 13.10 and previous version, I can use Mobile broadband/ express card (the Sierra wireless aircard 890) to access internet via 3G.
After installing new 14.04 LTS, the thing has gone. ...